[elrepo] Installing Broadcom tg3 3-3.137k dirvers for CentOS 5.4 - Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 14 decembrie 2015 18:42:10 EET, "Jagdish S. Varma" <jsvarma at connoiseur.com> wrote:
>Dear Manuel Wolfshant
>How do I go about recompiling the drivers against the old kernel.
>
I really apologize but the kernel you intend to use is so old and full of security bugs that I would do you no service by helping you to use it.  You really must explain to your client the meaning of an enterprise distribution, the fact that all his apps should run unmodified and persuade him to update.  
Or, if they insist on preserving their can of worms, read about [re]building kmod packages.


  Wolfy

>Best Regards
>Jagdish S. Varma
>Mob: +91-8277041000 / 9342509600
>
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>________________________________
>From: Manuel Wolfshant<mailto:wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>
>Sent: ‎14-‎12-‎2015 20:55
>To: EL Repo General Mailing List<mailto:elrepo at lists.elrepo.org>
>Subject: Re: [elrepo] Installing Broadcom tg3 3-3.137k dirvers for
>CentOS 5.4 - Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5
>
>On 12/14/2015 04:55 PM, Jagdish S. Varma wrote:
>Hi
>We need to install a 4 Port Broadcom Gigabit NIC Adapter of BCM5719
>controller on a Linux System running CentOS 5.4 having kernel
>2.6.18-164-el5.
>When we attempt to install the drivers using Yum or software installer,
>it needs dependencies available thru a kernel update 2.6.18-407-el5.
>
>Now the issue is that the client does not want a kernel update. How can
>install the Broadcom tg3 driver without upgrading the kernel.
>Apparently got to know that it is looking for “rhel5_drivers_pci_u7”
>file, but this is not available directly and is delivered with the
>kernel upgrade.
>Can anybody advise me on how to install this without doing the kernel
>upgrade. I know this is old and has several bugs which are a concern,
>but the client needs this. I cannot change this requirement. Can I get
>some advise here.
>
>You cannot do that unless you recompile the drivers against the old
>kernel.